Great Writing Conference, 2009
Well, it was exhausting and nerve-wracking, but I gave my first presentation amongst actual professionals in my field today. I barely got the presentation done in time – isn’t that always the case – and ...
Month: June 2009
Inside Out Empty: A Digital Story
This presentation consisted of a reading of my short story “Inside-Out Empty (Working Title)”, accompanied by a display of the digital adaptation in progress.
Did Somebody Offer a Challenge?
Bruce Sterling over at Wired.com posted eighteen of them for Contemporary Literature. It’s a skeletal overview: a list of statements without background or exploration of any. I’d like to offer a few brief thoughts on ...
I Had To Do It. Really
One of my supervisors is a big champion of the free and open source. To you, I offer my apologies. I tried. I really did. I got to know GIMP well enough to actually use ...
Muwah-ha-ha-ha…the Labyrinth of the Mind!!!
We all toss around the word ‘interdisciplinary’ like it’s a good thing. “We’re an interdisciplinary department”, “I’m doing interdisciplinary research”, blah blah blah. But when it comes down to it, we often just mean we’ll ...
Retreating to Write
One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of ...